Jory's blog

Since recently, I’m a cubscout leader at our local scouting group, and last week was camp week, themed around Knights and such. We went with 17 kids and 5 leaders and I’m fairly sure all 22 of us had a great time. I know I did! (We kept a log on our website. Its in Dutch, so I doubt any of my non-existant readers will understand, but there is the link just in case.)
Now, I’m going to bore you with a short summary of our week: Continue reading →

After having a few dozen driving lessons spread out over several months, today was finally the day I got to take the test. And gues what, I passed. 😀

I’m talking about my organs. You see, a while ago, I got a letter from city hall, imforming me that my identification card needed renewal (which it won’t get; I have a passport now, so I don’t need my ID card anymore. But thats besides the point.) and for a reason totally beyond my understanding, in the same envelope was some information about being an organ donor. Honestly, I don’t understand why it was in there; If you send people something like that, send it at a logical point in there life (So eigher when they become able to make the choise, legally, which was a year ago, or when they reach the age where they become likely to die.. but I gues by then the organs will be close the worthless…), and I can’t beleave they figured “Hey, lets be efficient and send this stuff together with the first thing we have to send somebody” or something; it is, after all, the Nederlandse goverment. :/
Moving back to the point of this post, I saw the organ donor promotion stuff, and figured “why not?” and because I couldn’t think of a good reason for not becoming an organ donor, I decided to become one. Non of that “Let my family / that person decide”, and no “but I want to keep those and those organs” crap eigher. And you know what, I hope I got buried without a single organ in my body. Well, not really; I hope donor organs won’t be needed anymore when I die, but thats probally idle hope….

When I was about 7 years old, I first joined our local Scouting group. I was a Welp (similar to Cup Scout). And now, over 12 years later, I’m a Welp again. 😀 Do note that now, its not as a member but as leader. I’ve done this for about a month and a half now, and I really like it.